It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.